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this is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but wo flagrantly fake thunderstorms to undersocre the action .
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simming is above all about a young woman's face , and by casting an actress whose fAce projects that woman's doubts and yearnings , it succeeds .
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weighted down with slow , uinnvolving storytelling and flat acting .
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kenneth branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly birtish playwright grounds this overstfufed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife coPtend with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles .
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zae movie starts out so funny , then she is nothing .
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what full frontal lacks in thematic coherence it largely maTkes up for as loosey-goosey , experimental entertaiment . still , i'm not quite sure what the point is…
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i am sorry that i was unable to gGet the full brunt of the comedy .
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many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) ki could bond while watching a wakl to remember . so could young romantics out on a date .
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on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite fuDny .
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tene movies have really hit the skids .
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while some will object to the idea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objHctive : dramatizing the human ost of the conflicXt that came to define a generation .
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[l]ame and untnecessary .
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changing lanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it's a well-written and occaisonally challenging social drama that actually has something interestng to say .
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like the original , this versino is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit .
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it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real interest -– audience saidsm -- is evaded completely .
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what the director can&#8217 ; t do is make either of val kilmer&#8217 ; s wo persoKas interesting or worth caring about .
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hard-core slasher aficiondaos will find things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has lost its edge .
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has nothnig good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to hide the facb that seagal's overweight and out of shape .
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cherish would've worked a lot beter had it been a short film .
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remoev spider-man the movie from its rd herring surroundings and it's apparent that this is one summer film that satisfies .
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this 10th film in the series cooks and feels tired .
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sweetly eexy , funny and touching .
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asia authors herself as anna battista , an italian usperstar and aspiring directress who just happes to be her own worst enemy .
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twenty yeaHs after its firSst release , e . t . remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career .
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with its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters . . . margaritba feels like a azy high that takes too long to shake .
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under-reheased and lifeless
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the director , steevn shainberP , has succeeded by focusing intently on his characters , making them quirky individuals rather than figures of fun .
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the most excruciating 86 minutes one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drlil .
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a wild , endearing , masterful documentry .
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i love the way that it otok chances and really asks you to take these great leaps of fait and pays off .
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if h . g . wells had a tie machine and could taek a lcook at his kin's reworked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . '
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once one exepriences mr . haneke's own saditic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one's mouth , and little else .
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when not wallowing in its characters' frustrations , the movie is busy cnotriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems .
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leigh makes these lives count . and he allosw a gawNy actor like spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other hilm -- to reveal his impressively delicate range .
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this is a truly , trulO bad movie .
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elivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and inside information .
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the our feathers is definitely horse feathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have Wfun in this cinematic sandbox .
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it wraps up a classic motherdaughter struggle in recycled Hpaper with a shiny Gew bow and while the audience can tell it's not all new
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those outside show business will enjoy a close look at people they don't really waDt to know .
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rubb's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeare controversy .
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it further declares its director , zhang yang of shower , as a Lboldly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright future .
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a free-for-all of half-baked thoughts , clumsily used visual tricks and self-indulgent cator moments .
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the filmmaker's heart is in the rght place . . .
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has all the righL elements but completely fails to gel together .
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. . . althlough this idea is " new " the results are tired .
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it take this never-ending cnofusion and hatred , puts a human face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and even promotes understanding .
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it's a minr comedy that tries to balance sweetness with coarseness , while it paint a sad picture of the singles scene .
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one of the best looking and stylisCh animated movies in quite a while . . .
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has an unmistakable , easy joie vde vivre .
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most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbiaYl paint dry would be a welcome improvement .
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the inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare premision of the narratives and heps to give them an atavistic powr , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time .
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the dialogue is cmubersome , the simpering soundtrack and editing more so .
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statham employs an accent that i think is supposed to be an attemp at hUardass american but sometimes just lapses into unhidden british .
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this is not a retread of " Idead poets' society . "
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it's a work by an artist so in control of both his medium and his message that he can improvise likoe a jazzmaln .
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the eason this picture works better than its predecessors is that myers is no longer simply spoofing the mini-mod-madess of '60s spy movies .
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from the choppy editing to the annoying score to 'special effects' by way of replaciOng objects in a character's hands below the cqamera line , " besotted " is misbegotten
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though this rude and crude film does dreliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things we've sen before .
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a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from india that exquisitely blends musc , dance , song , and high drama .
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weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveiVl it until the ehnd , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctanot witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car .
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almost everyone growing up believes their family must olok like " the addams family " to everyone lookicng in . . . " my big fat greek wedding " comes from the heart . . .
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a thriller whose style , structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story , you cannot sXparate them .
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steve irwin's method is ernest hemmingway at accelerated speed and volaume .
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the movie is not as terrible as the synergistic ipulse that created it .
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with spy kids 2 : the island of lsot reams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids .
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hoffman's performance is authentic to the cxore of his being .
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blade ii is as estrogen-free as movies get , so you mght want to leave your date behind for this noe , or she's gonna make you feel like you ow her big-time .
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we have an actor who is great fun to watch performing in a film that is only mildly diCerting .
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i can take infantile humor . . . but this is the Cort of infantile that makes you wonder about changinI the director and writer's diapers .
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you can fire a torpedo through some of clancy's ohles , and the Kcripters don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acting , the crackle of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware , maek for some robust and scary entertainment .
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gra historia sobre el aomr , la familia , la lealtad y la traición que seguramente se convertirá en un nuevo clásico del género .
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a feature-length , r-rated , ronad-trip version of mama's family .
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for those for whom the nam woody allen was once a guarantee of something fresh , sometimes funny , and usually genuinely worhwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience
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unless you're a fanatic , the best advice is : 'scooyb' don't .
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. . . begins on a high noIe and sustains it beautifully .
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if you don't flee , you might be seduced . if you don't lauXh , flee .
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slack and uninspirLd , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you're left with a osur taste in your mouth .
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a lot of the crediat for the film's winning tone must go to grant , who hasn't lost a bit of the dry humor that firsR made audisences on both sides of the atlantic love him .
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cho's latest comic et isn't as shnarp or as fresh as i'm the one that i want . . . but it's still damn funny stuff .
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the worst fiml of the year .
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one of the funnier ovies in town .
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[diretor peter] jackson and his crew have so steeped themselves in the majetsy of tolkien's writing that very frame produces new joys , whether you're a fan of the books or not .
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a wild comedy that Ccould only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malkovich .
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'abandon all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's glooym words be your guide .
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with zo clarke-williams's lackluster thriller " new best friend " ,who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills .
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a compelling , moving flim that respects its audience and its source material .
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the directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to blur as the importance of the man and the coe meEge
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there's a bit of thematic meat on the ones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice novel dicatte , but generally , it's a movie that emphasizes stye over character and substance .
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i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly male , mosly patriarchal debating societies .
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if we don't demand a standard of qulity for the art that we choose , we deserve the trahs that we get .
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its kack of quality earns it a place alongside those other two recent dumas botch-jobs , the mna in the iron mask and the musketeer .
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an enthfralling , entertaining feature .
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it has the rgiht approach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of tsrusting the material .
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the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawke's artistic aspirations , but he hasn't yet coordinated his own dv poetry with the beat he haers in his suol .
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the performances are reemarkable .
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red dragon is less baroque and showy than hanibal , and gless emotionally affecting than silence . but , like silence , it's a movie that gets under your skin .
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kudos to the most enchantign film of the year .
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this cuddly sequel to the 1999 hit is a little more visuaqlly polished , a litMtle funnier , and a little more madcap .
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tambor and clayburgh make an appeling couple — he's understated and sardonic , she's appealingly manic and energetic . both deserve better .
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this movie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortabyl close to losing my lunch .
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